(Architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone.
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Examples for "corner"
Examples for "corner"
1As a result, David Breen moves out to the right corner forward.
2The voice of the tall stranger in the corner broke in here:
3Request corner room 814 on the top floor for a great view.
4We've come to the street corner where reality and virtual reality meet.
5Arsenal win a corner after good work by Smicer on the left.
1Porter's bed and quoin has been adopted for all carriages requiring quoins.
2An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
3H. Elevating screw and lever, with saucer (I) in place of bed and quoin.
4The Handspikemen, if there is a quoin, free the quoin and lower the breech, the 2d Captain handling the quoin.
5This quoin, being graduated to whole degrees, requires a small additional quoin for slight differences of elevation in smooth water.
6If one quoin was not enough to secure proper depression, a block or a second quoin was placed below the first.
7He fell on his knees, with his face on his hands in the open quoin drawer, feeling as if he had uttered a blasphemy.
8Here we saw a flat stone supposed to have been the quoin of a fallen cromlech, and to have been used for sacrificial purposes.
9Patrons can purchase award-winning Quoin Rock wine by the glass or bottle.
10When there are no housing-chocks the ordinary chocking-quoins may be used as such.
11They are suspended from anchors at the hollow quoins, and work very easily.
12But Quoin, one of the quarter-gunners, had eyes like a ferret.
13Quoin swore by his guns, and slept by their side.
14Hence to Quoin Point (Coin-de-Mire) the coast has no sinuosities.
15Quoin Rock Wine Estate Picnic at Quoin Rock.
16In the evening of the 10th, the Gunner's Quoin bore N. by E., and False Cape, E.N.E.